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Jasmine Crockett jumps into the Texas Senate race and suddenly Republicans are … thrilled?
Why the panic over Crockett is premature—and misses the bigger picture
This past Monday, Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett dropped a political bombshell , entering the Senate primary, prompting one fellow ...
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December 14, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Wait ... what?!?
Gorsuch's puppy 'bondage,' plus Noem vs. Mamdani
Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back. This week, we’ve got a whole bunch of ...
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December 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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A Trump impersonator is running for Congress in New Jersey—and he’s dead serious about it. Can humor cut through the noise?
No laughing matter: Trump impersonator launches very real House bid
American democracy has an engagement issue. Many people either identify as apolitical or are too detached to bat an eye toward local or national politics. And with social media, the rulebook on how ...
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December 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Cartoon ✍️: Trump trough
By Mike Luckovich

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December 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Trump’s DOJ is now suing Georgia to dig through sealed 2020 ballots—because nothing says “strong leader” like rerunning your biggest humiliation five years later.

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December 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Trump’s DOJ is now suing Georgia to dig through sealed 2020 ballots—because nothing says “strong leader” like rerunning your biggest humiliation five years later.
Your tax dollars are funding Trump's election lies
The Department of Justice announced Friday it’s suing Georgia as part of President Donald Trump’s crusade to pursue long-debunked 2020 election conspiracies. The suit demands that the state ...
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December 13, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Trump’s rolling out a flashy “gold card” visa for the wealthy, face included, while flood-ravaged Westernport, Maryland gets denied FEMA aid.
Trump hates Trump country. But will they ever hate him back?
President Donald Trump is giddy about his tacky “gold card” visa program, his face plastered on the card like it's some third-world strongman souvenir. As Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick ...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Trump just issued a “symbolic pardon” to Tina Peters — which is perfect, because her conviction is in state court, and symbolic is all he’s got. Colorado is not impressed.
Trump grants fake pardon to infamous election denier
President Donald Trump has issued a “symbolic” pardon of Tina Peters, once the clerk for Mesa County, Colorado, but now a convicted felon for a little light election ...
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December 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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🔥 Deadline’s coming.
DOJ withholding Epstein files would be a 'crime,' says Republican
GOP Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky spoke with reporters Friday, where he was asked what would happen if the Department of Justice fails to release the long-...
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December 13, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Cartoon ✍️: Too tired for a third term
By Jack Ohman

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December 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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1,134 days of Trump’s second term to go.
(Every headline feels like a jump scare.)

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December 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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“The chances are Republicans will go down and will go down hard."

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'We're facing almost certain defeat': RNC chair knows GOP is screwed
The head of the Republican National Committee is not mincing words about his party's odds in the 2026 midterm elections. “We are facing almost certain defeat," RNC Chair Joe Gruters said on a ...
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December 13, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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LOL.

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Election-denying MyPillow CEO wants to be Minnesota’s next governor
Mike Lindell, MyPillow CEO and one of the loudest voices in the election-denial movement, is running for governor of Minnesota, announcing the bid Thursday from the floor of his factory. “I want you…
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December 13, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Retiring GOP Rep. Don Bacon says our Cyber Command sat leaderless for ~9 months because the administration fired the most qualified commander at the behest of Laura Loomer — and Russia & China aren’t exactly tweeting “good job.”

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'Crazy lady': Republican tears into Laura Loomer
Retiring Republican Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska is freer than most to voice his criticisms of the Trump administration. During a Friday�appearance on C-SPAN , he zeroed in on ...
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December 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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“I stand before you a free man and I want you to remember me this way, with my head held up high.”

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Kilmar Abrego Garcia released as key ICE case collapses
A federal judge ordered Maryland father Kilmar Abrego Garcia to be released from custody on Thursday night, making for the latest major setback in the Trump administration’s bigoted immigration ...
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December 12, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Indiana Republicans just told Trump, JD Vance, Mike Johnson and Don Jr. to shove their gerrymander—31–19. A full-on mutiny, and honestly? Deserved.

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Indiana spurns Trump's attempt to rig 2026 elections
Republicans in the Indiana state Senate on Thursday defied President Donald Trump's orders to gerrymander their congressional map in order to help rig the 2026 midterms for the GOP, a major rebuke ...
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December 12, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Scott Bessent looked at the Financial Stability Oversight Council and said, “What if … we didn’t do oversight?” Trump’s Treasury turning the 2008-crisis watchdog into a vibes-based growth committee is certainly a choice.

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Farewell, financial stability. Hello, AI controlling your money.
Scott Bessent, secretary of the U.S. Treasury and pretend soybean farmer , is here to shake things up in the financial regulation space, and by “shake things up” I mean “get rid of all the ...
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December 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Another day, another grand jury laughing Trump’s DOJ out of the room.

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Grand juries won’t prop up Trump team’s dumbassery
Another day, another grand jury refusing to reindict New York Attorney General Letitia James on the laughably thin mortgage fraud allegations manufactured by the Trump administration. If you’re ...
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December 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Cartoon ✍️: Tick, tick, tick ...
By Clay Bennett

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December 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Senate Republicans just blocked the bill to extend ACA premium tax credits — meaning millions of families are now staring at double-digit premium spikes in 2026.

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Thanks, Republicans! Your Obamacare premiums are going to skyrocket.
Senate Republicans blocked a bill Thursday that would have extended enhanced tax credits to help Americans afford health insurance, virtually guaranteeing that they will expire at the end of the ...
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December 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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“South Park” really said: what if Jesus goes MAGA, Satan has Trump’s butt-baby Antichrist, and Peter Thiel ends up in jail with Pete Hegseth — and somehow it all still feels less absurd than the real Trump administration.

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Trump and team torn to pieces in season finale of ‘South Park’
The season finale of “South Park,” which premiered Wednesday night, delivered a beautifully crass takedown of President Donald Trump and his cabal of Cabinet members. Now in its 28th season, the ...
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December 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Nancy Mace wants to rename Black Lives Matter Plaza after Charlie Kirk. Truly incredible how fast she can sprint from transphobia to bathroom policing to full-on racist cosplay. A Renaissance Bigot.

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Nancy Mace shows she can be so much more than transphobic
Where does Republican� Rep. Nancy Mace find the time? She’s a 24-7 transphobe , a lady you do not want to find yourself in line with at the airport, and a ...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Rents too damn high!

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Mamdani and James take on high New York housing costs
The rent is too damn high , and two New York Democrats are trying to fight back. First, New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Michael Lohan Jr.—
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December 12, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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📣 EXCLUSIVE 📣

Missouri lawmakers rushed to hand Trump the gerrymander he wanted—so voters handed back 300,000 signatures saying “Try again.”

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How Missourians rose up against gerrymandering: GOP is 'terrified'
When President Donald Trump pressed Missouri’s GOP to help him rig the 2026 midterm elections, they passed a map that is expected to give the party one more seat in the U.S. House. But everyday ...
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December 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Joe Kernen:A lot of times I do not look immediately for the downside to something, but I'm sure people are at this point. But if the president says that [Apple CEO] Tim Cook has actually pushed for this policy, I think that's a pretty good endorsement that maybe the president's onto something here.
RIP, American dream: Trump goon welcomes rich immigrants only
Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick appeared on CNBC Thursday to defend President Donald Trump's new "Gold Card" visa program , which allows applicants to buy U.S. citizenship for $1 million. ...
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December 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM